To the Right Honourable Sir John Barnard< no role > Knt . and the Rest of his
Majestyes Justices of Oier and Terminer and Goal Delivery at Justice Hall
in the Old Bayley

The humble Prayer of Joseph Hodgson< no role >

Sheweth

That on the Twenty first day of April last Your Supplicant
was Comitted to his Majestys Goal of Newgate by Mr. Alderman
Westley on a Strong Suspition of taking from the person of
John Pye< no role > a Bank Note of five hundred pounds

Your Supplicant therefore most humbly
Prays your Lord Shipps that he may
This Cresent Sessions) be either Tryed
Bailed or Discharged for the said offence
Persuant to the Direction of the Habe as
Corpus Act)

And your Petitioner shall ever Pray

Joseph Hodgson< no role >